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that it was sometimes used for cooking purposes. I then told her
it would have to be removed, and gave her three days to remove it.
She promised to do so, and as I was leaving she asked me when I
would return to see the premises. I said about three days time,
or any time after, as I was often along that way.
On Friday, the 25th April,in my daily despatch box from
Head Office which reaches me about 2 p.n., I received a file from
Head Office from the Secretary re a letter of complaint against
an unlicensed hair factory being carried on on the third floor
of 53 & 55, Queen's Road East. This being an urgent matter that
should be attended to at once, I got on my bicycle and rode from
the office to these premises, placing my machine against the con-
vent wall, which is on the opposite side of Queen's Road East to
the premises in question. On looking up to the two floors I was
about to visit to see if there were any signs of a hair factory
being carried on, I saw the woman on the verandah of 51, Queen's
Road East. She went into the flat, and returned almost immedia-
poly and beckoned me up by a motion of her akik hand. Knowing
this was the floor where the nuisances were existing on my pre-
vious visit, I went up, thinking she wished to show me that my
I knooked at the door and it was requests had been attended to.
opened by her, and she asked me if I wished to see the kitchen.
I walked in, she closing the door after me and stopping in the
flat.
As I came back, and was about to remark that nothing was
done, she was standing between the bed and washhand stand. Owing
to the nature of the flat and the situation of the furniture,
this leaves only about a two foot span to get through. I could
I had a crooked not pass her without pushing her out of the way.
handle stick on my arm, and my hat in the same hand and paper in
my other hand, She took my stick from my arm, and caught hold of
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